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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
我 的 佳 偶 在 女 子 中 ， 好 像 百 合 花 在 荆 棘 内 。 （ 新 娘 ）

Contextual Overview

¹ I am a rose in the Plain of Sharon, a lily in the valleys. ² Among the young women, my darling is like a lily among thorns!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Isaiah 55:13, Matthew 6:28, Matthew 6:29, Matthew 10:16, Philippians 2:15, Philippians 2:16, 1 Peter 2:12

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 23:6 - thorns 2 Kings 14:9 - The thistle Psalms 45:11 - So shall Song of Solomon 1:9 - O my Song of Solomon 6:1 - O thou Song of Solomon 6:2 - and to Hosea 14:5 - he shall

Cross-References

Genesis 1:31
God looked at everything he had made, and it was very good. Evening passed, and morning came. This was the sixth day.

Genesis 2:8
Then the Lord God planted a garden in the east, in a place called Eden, and put the man he had formed into it.

Genesis 2:11
The first river, named Pishon, flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

Exodus 23:12
"You should work six days a week, but on the seventh day you must rest. This lets your ox and your donkey rest, and it also lets the slave born in your house and the foreigner be refreshed.

Exodus 31:17
The Sabbath day will be a sign between me and the Israelites forever, because in six days I, the Lord , made the sky and the earth. On the seventh day I did not work; I rested.'"

Deuteronomy 5:14
but the seventh day is a day of rest to honor the Lord your God. On that day no one may do any work: not you, your son or daughter, your male or female slaves, your ox, your donkey, or any of your animals, or the foreigners living in your cities. That way your servants may rest as you do.

Isaiah 58:13
"You must obey God's law about the Sabbath and not do what pleases yourselves on that holy day. You should call the Sabbath a joyful day and honor it as the Lord 's holy day. You should honor it by not doing whatever you please nor saying whatever you please on that day.

John 5:17
But Jesus said to them, "My Father never stops working, and so I keep working, too."

Hebrews 4:4
In the Scriptures he talked about the seventh day of the week: "And on the seventh day God rested from all his works."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

As the lily among thorns, so [is] my love among the daughters. These are manifestly the words of Christ concerning his church, whom he calls "my love", :-; and was his love still, though in such company, and in such an uncomfortable condition. In what sense she is comparable to a lily has been shown in Song of Solomon 2:1; but here she is compared to one among "thorns": by which may be meant wicked men, comparable to thorns for their unfruitfulness and unprofitableness; for their being hurtful and pernicious to good men; and for their end, which is to be burned; especially persecutors of religion, who are very distressing to the saints who dwell among them; see 2 Samuel 23:6; and her being among such serves for a foil, to set off her excellency the more: and the simile is designed, not so much to observe that Christ's lily grows among thorns, as to show that the church is as preferable to such persons as a lily is to thorns; which is justly remarked by Carolus Maria de Veil; and which sense the comparison requires, as appears by the reddition, so is "my love among the daughters": the nations and men of the world, and even carnal professors, members of the visible church, whom she as much exceeds in beauty, grace, and fruitfulness, as the lily exceeds thorns. Ainsworth thinks the "woodbind" or "honeysuckle" is meant, which grows in thorn hedges, and is sometimes called "lilium inter spinas", as Mercer observes; this is indeed of a sweet smell, yet very weak, and cannot support itself; and therefore twists and wraps itself about other trees, their twigs and branches, "convolvens se adminiculis quibuscunque", as Pliny h says; hence we call it "woodbind", and for the same reason its name in Greek is "periclymenon"; so saints are of a sweet fragrance to Christ, and, weak in themselves, cannot support themselves; yet they twine about Christ, lean on him, and are upheld by him, and depend on him for all good things. But it is the same word as in Song of Solomon 2:1, and may be rendered "lily" here as there; and not a "rose", as it is in the Targum, from which it is there distinguished. The lily is often mentioned in this love song; it is said to be the delight of Verus i. Some call it "ambrosia".

h Nat. Hist. l. 27. c. 12. i Nicander apud Athenaeum, l. 15. c. 8. p. 683.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The king resumes, taking up the bride’s comparison: “As the lily excels in beauty the thorny shrubs among which it grows, so my friend excels her companions.”